Appalachian Figures On a modern map, Elk Spring Valley in Wayne County, Kentucky looks like one more fold in the Appalachian foothills. In the early nineteenth century it was a busy crossroads, a place where Virginia and North Carolina families filtered into Kentucky, then followed the rivers and roads south into Tennessee.
The compound spiro-dibenzocycloheptatriene (figure 1) made headlines a year ago by claiming that the ipso carbon atoms across the molecule were bound together by a single electron σ bond.
A couple of days ago, I stumbled over a Mastodon post by @johl, in which [he shared vimwiki](https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki) as his approach for taking notes in vim. Which immediately piqued my interest, as I have so far been just taking my notes in plain vim without a way of linking them.
Five principles for the future of computing: private, dedicated, plural, adaptable, and prosocial.
Der Verein edusharing-network e.V. bietet gemeinsam mit den Expert:innen von iRights.Law ein Webinar zu den rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen rund um KI-Lerndaten und deren Nutzung in Bildungs- und KI-Infrastrukturen. Das Webinar findet im Rahmen der Webinarreihe „KI-Infrastruktur für Bildung“ statt. Es behandelt inhaltlich insbesondere die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen, wenn KI-Lerndaten gesammelt, genutzt oder geteilt werden.
Refugee status and political activities have morphed from mutually constitutive categories in the period of anticolonial struggles to binaries in post-independence Africa. The fluid categorizations of the anticolonial era are in contrast to contemporary categorizations of refugees that preclude political activities and replace them with an apolitical, humanitarian refugee profile.
Appalachian Figures On November 29, 2024, Robert Elledy “Bob” Gable died in Lexington at the age of ninety. Obituaries described him as a Navy veteran, Stanford trained engineer, governor’s candidate, arts patron, and for seven years the chair of the Republican Party of Kentucky. Beneath that public résumé is a story that belongs squarely in Appalachian history.
Appalachian Figures On a farm called Strawberry Hill outside Grantsville, Maryland, a sickly girl once spent more time in the woods than in a classroom. She memorized wildflowers instead of spelling lists and pressed ferns into homemade notebooks.
Appalachian Figures Gridiron Glory on a Garrett County Shore When most people scan the long lists of “notable people from Garrett County, Maryland,” they expect names tied to timber, railroads, or the ski slopes at Wisp. Tucked among them is a different kind of figure.
Appalachian Figures On a quiet day in Edinburg, Virginia, you can walk into the Shenandoah County Library and find a doorway that opens into the past. The sign over that doorway reads “Truban Archives.” Inside are shelves of county records, family photographs, oral histories, and rare local publications that might otherwise have disappeared.
Appalachian Figure From Appalachian boyhood to Denver rings and Hollywood lots If you know Richard “Fighting Dick” Gilbert at all, you probably know him as the burly cop or henchman in Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang shorts, forever being tripped, drenched, or humiliated for a laugh. For decades he was part of the Hal Roach stock company, the dependable heavy in the background of other people’s jokes.